North Alabama Chapter of ASTD

Board Meeting Minutes: August 11, 2005

Lanier, Ford, Shaver & Payne, 200 Westside Square, Suite 600, Huntsville, AL 35801

Lori King-Taylor, President, convened meeting at 12:10 p.m.

Attendees: Lori King-Taylor, Nancy Hodges, Gloria Stover, John Hightower, Rhonda Williams, Cindy Dodd, Amy Heard and Debi Trumbull.

Treasurer Report:

John Hightower submitted the cash flow report for approval.

Total Income $4703.25

Expenses $4160.77

Net $ 542.48 Total Balance: $3,835.50

The budget was reviewed and approved as submitted.

Secretary’s Report:

Minutes from July’s meeting were read by Debi Trumbull and approved as amended.

Committee Reports:

Membership-

• Cindy Dodd presented the membership report. We currently have 28 local members and 17 local/national members for a total of 45 members.

· For the membership drive in September we need materials, greeters, id ribbons for board & members.

· It was proposed that during our introductions we ask each current member to share at least one thing they have gotten out of ASTD in the last year.

Communication-

• Rhonda reported that the postcards were at Kinkos and would be picked-up August 12^th.
• Discussed the advantages of having color in the last newsletter (which looked great!) and the best way to reimburse Rhonda for the color printing. Possibility of a color printer was proposed, but at the very least we will be supplying color cartridges for her printer.
• The committee continued to brainstormed ideas for increasing advertising in the newsletter to help defray production costs.

Programs-

• The July program on ROI was successful.

The following schedule was tentatively approved for the remainder of the year:

• August Reaching the Community with Your Non-Profit Message - Mental Health Center
• September Membership Drive & Event Planning- Beverly Youngken
• October Train-the-Trainer Workshop
• November Tour of Corporate Space Camp
• December Holiday Program

There was some discussion regarding the high cost of food/facilities for the November program at the Corporate Space Camp. Nancy will check to see if a better rate can be gotten through either sponsorship by the Space Center, or by allowing us to cater in the food. It was also decided that the Mental Health Center would use Heavenly Ham to cater in food for the August Program.

Old Business

Membership Drive

• September is our membership drive. Everyone who brings a guest be eligible for a grand drawing of a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card. Members will be given one chance for each guest attending.
• Cindy and Amy will set-up and information table with membership packets available.

T3 Conference

• Gloria reported a good response on the surveys passed out at the July meeting. We have received a total of 18. (They were due to us on August 5^th) The results were as follows:

1) Measuring Training Results

2) Leadership

3) Laugh & Learn

4) Distance Learning

5) Innovations in Training

6) Instruction/Design/Implementation

We will continue to seek presenters for these seminars.

· Suggested Speakers were Kevin McNulty (Humadyn), Gary Huckabee (Attorney), Jack Lee (President KMSI) and Steve Case (E-base Training).

· The following committees were appointed

· Program- Rhonda & Amy

· Speakers- Gloria

· Theme & Decoration- Lori & Debi

· Registration & Nametags- John

· Evaluations- Amy

· Food & A/V Equipment- Nancy

National ASTD Leaders Conference

The next ASTD Leaders Conference will be held November 4& 5 in Arlington, VA. It was determined that as President Elect, Gloria Stover would represent our chapter. Since there is no registration fee this year for chapter leaders we will be looking at sending two representatives.

New Business

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The meeting dismissed at??? p.m. The next meeting will be held at????

Respectively Submitted by:

Debi Trumbull

Secretary